Dryopteris caucasica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Dryopteris caucasica (A.Braun) Fraser-Jenk. & Corley, Brit. Fern Gaz. 10: 222 (1972).

Basionym
- Aspidium caucasicum A.Braun, Flora 24(2, 45): 707 (1841), nom. nov.
Homotypic
- Aspidium affine Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 11: 240 (1838), nom. illeg.
  - Typus: Azerbaijan, Khanlar, 1836, Hohenacker (LE)
- Polystichum affine Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4: 515 (1853), nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
- Dryopteris filix-mas var. affinis Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, ed. 3: 187 (1854), nom. illeg.
  - Dryopteris affinis (Newman) Kinahan, Phytologist 5: 197 (1854 publ. 1856).
- Dryopteris filix-mas subsp. caucasica (A.Braun) Askerov, Zametki Sist. Geogr. Rast. 39: 6 (1983).
Heterotypic
- Dryopteris filix-mas var. athyriformis Fomin, Vestn. Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 20: 35 (1911).
  - Syntypes from Prov. Terek and Tiflis (TBI).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Romania, Turkey-in-Europe.
- Regional: Eastern Europe
  - Krym, Ukraine (Moldova).
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Caucasus
  - North Caucasus, Transcaucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Gruziya).
- Regional: Western Asia
  - Iran, Turkey.

Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Corley, H.V. 1972. Dryopteris caucasica - an ancestral diploid in the male fern aggregate. British Fern Gazette 10(5): 221–231. BHL Reference page.

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